Letture sulla “riconsiderazione” del giudice Goldstone

Daoud Kuttab | NENA News | In the Middle East, perceptions are as important as realities. A notable change-of-mind occurred when a newspaper published an article by Richard Goldstone, who was the head of a UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) commission that accused Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes in Gaza.

Norman Finkelstein/Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss | I was lecturing in Georgia and I had all these great plans, I’m working on a new book, actually completely overhauling an old book manuscript… I was coming home, refreshed and exhilarated from the Georgia lectures. And I opened up my computer [on Saturday April 2] and it was just a mixture of being shocked and shattered. I was shocked and shattered.

Ilan Pappé | Electronic Intifada | “If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone report would have been a different document.” Thus opens Judge Richard Goldstone’s much-discussed op-ed in The Washington Post. I have a strong feeling that the editor might have tampered with the text and that the original sentence ought to have read something like […]

Noura Erakat | Jadaliyya | While the impact of Justice Goldstone’s op-ed on accountability and justice remains to be seen, one thing has already been made clear: his contentious and vague editorial has worked to place Israel’s Winter 2008/09 offensive back on center stage.